You've seen the reviews and decided you want an iPad. Read this article to get specific advice on which model to buy and how to pick among the accessories offered by Apple.
Glenn Fleishman tries reading in several apps - iBooks, Kindle for iPad, and GoodReader for iPad - and finds the experience uniformly positive.
Did you receive one of the 300,000 new iPads purchased on the first day? Jeff Carlson and Peachpit Press have posted a 21-page excerpt from Jeff's book "The iPad Pocket Guide" as a free PDF download. It covers setting up the iPad and essential features, and offers a taste of what the rest of the book is like when it ships. (Peachpit is offering it for $8.99 with free shipping. To access the PDF file, click the Sample Content tab on the book's product page.)
Do Apple programmers ever sleep? Hard on the heels of the iPad release, Apple has just invited media to a special event in Cupertino to talk about the next version of the iPhone OS.
Adam joins O'Reilly Media's Mac Slocum and other O'Reilly authors in this live webcast at 1 PM Pacific on 5 April 2010 to talk about what it was like to use the iPad in the first few days. Don't fret if you missed it, since O'Reilly makes the video of the webcast available for viewing afterward.
With an iPad in hand, Adam begins to understand what's different about the iPad, and why it's an important step in the future of computing. The key? The iPad doesn't run apps, it becomes them.
The iPad is here, but what will be its future? The world may or may not rush to buy it, but I think developers will rush to program for it.
Stephen Colbert, host of the Comedy Central show "The Colbert Report," recently took a hands-on look at the iPad before it was available to the general public. In addition to examining this week's Newsweek cover featuring the iPad and one unfortunate similarity to the iPhone, Colbert demonstrates some of its lesser known features - including those pertaining to the culinary arts!
At first we suspected a delayed April Fool's Day prank, but we checked with our local Verizon Wireless store, and it's true. The cellular provider is now pushing the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus phones by offering those phones' former $40-per-month Wi-Fi Mobile Hotspot feature for free.
Apple has announced that the MobileMe features Find My iPhone, Remote Wipe, and content syncing are now available for both the iPad with Wi-Fi and the upcoming model that includes 3G. Forgetful road warriors would do well to consider purchasing a $99 MobileMe membership, as the location-finding and data-clearing features would be worth the cost alone should your iPad go missing. Also, iPad owners who have an iPhone will be pleased to know both devices can work with a single MobileMe account.
Many early iPad apps are little more than what you'd get running an iPhone app with its pixels doubled - stretched-out user interfaces with more space, but nothing new. Not so for the Bento personal database app, available now for your shiny new iPad.
Apple has announced plans to release a larger iPod touch to complete their portable product line, silence critics, and better differentiate the iPad.
The optional four-digit passcode required to access a locked iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch may be enough to thwart casual pickpockets, but determined thieves can get through it easily. A new alternative ensures that only you know the combination.
If you've resisted giving up Eudora on your Mac, you'll be pleased to learn that although there hasn't been a new release for the Mac for some years, the program will be making the leap to the iPad, a platform that is in some ways more like the Macs upon which Eudora was originally designed in 1988.
In response to the negative press surrounding app rejections and removals, sources indicate that Apple will soon start franchising the App Store, enabling anyone who meets Apple's criteria to run their own version of the popular virtual marketplace. In related news, Apple's App Store will also start carrying Mac applications.